Six women, of whom Jean King was one of founded the first women's caucus in a major party, the Women's Caucus of the Michigan Democratic Party. That caucus would, in 1976 achieve the first delegation evenly split between men and women. In 1974, King filed a complaint against sex discrimination in textbooks in Kalamazoo Public Schools. As a result, the publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt immediately issued a correction.[3][4] In 2008, King was honored by Veteran Feminists of America for her work.[5] The Women’s Center of Southeastern Michigan was named after King.[6]